dek wrote:
Equal in what regards? Intellectually? Physically?
Aestu wrote:
Qualitatively.
Do you know what sexual dimorphism is?
You just in essence did this.
Battletard: Which way, A or B?
Aestu: Yes.
He was asking which quality you are talking about.
Either/or.
dek wrote:
And yes, sexual dimorphism in humans means that men and women have different physical characteristics, but you'd have to be more specific for that to be meaningful. Which particular characteristics do you think are pertinent?
Personality, traits, tendencies, etc. Qualities, not quantities.
dek wrote:
The only ones I can think of would be directly related to the act of child weening, such as breastfeeding, but that is only applicable for a very narrow window of time and during a time when the mother would most likely be home recovering anyways. Any overlap between when the mother would go back to work and the child would still need weening could (and usually is) covered with breast pumps and bottles.
Beyond that, there really aren't any physical characteristics that would benefit a woman more than a man for staying home. That leaves just the other side of the equation, the work being done to support the household. But that's a bit unrealistic, as any job that has meaningful physical limitations (where the man would have to do it because he's stronger) would also not make enough money to support a household on a single income.
A stay at home dad would probably be married to a professional woman, a doctor or lawyer or someone in that salary range. Those are jobs that have no real gender requirement. Just like a stay at home mom would most likely be married to a professional man.
I know a guy that writes video game guides for supplemental income and generally is a stay at home dad. I'm not sure what his wife does but she apparently makes enough money to support them in a fairly nice house.
edit: And yes, I understand I was taking a loose interpretation of sexual dimorphism, but that was still the only example I could think of that even loosely applied.
The same argument could be used to rationalize slavery - how else would society make ends meet? - and the counter-argument is the same, which is that people manage to make do without it, and that it's immaterial anyway because the argument is moral and not economic.
You're claiming that in terms of personality traits and psychology, women and men differ only in terms of their sex organs and physical secondary sexual traits? Besides that, are they exactly the same - you wouldn't be any different in terms of your tastes, personality, etc, if you were born without a Y chromosome?
